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Aguelt Mahba 002 - lunar meteorite

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Oct 12, 2025
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Classification: Lunar meteorite (troctolite melt breccia) History: Found approximately 22 km east-northeast of Tenoumer Crater, Mauritania, in 2023. Physical characteristics: Seven stones found together. Fusion crust is absent. Surface is dark colored and irregular with numerous vesicles visible. Petrography: (C. Agee, UNM) This meteorite is an anorthositic troctolite melt breccia consisting primarily of fine-grained olivine and lesser amounts of pyroxene poikilitically enclosed in a dominant plagioclase-rich melt host lithology. Abundant vesicles and shock melt are present throughout. Minor amounts of chromite, augite, and Fe-sulfide were detected.

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